Four days running a real job search: the numbers

A backend developer in São Paulo, after a remote role paid in dollars. The interview was never the tiring part. The queue before it is: reading job boards, deciding whether a posting is worth the hour, filling the same Greenhouse and Lever forms again. We built something that runs that cycle by itself and pointed it at one search. Four days, one search, n=1.

Four days of real numbers

Saying no is the product

The most valuable thing it does is refuse. 87% of what it read never became an application: a pay floor, a time-zone window or a work-permit rule failed. Every refusal is a form nobody filled. The tools that promise “1,500 applications a day” invert that ratio, and the hiring side notices: their software already answers that pattern with fraud checks.

The bill that nearly killed it

Two applications from the same code, on the same expensive setup, cost $6.33 and $0.39. The expensive one re-read about 8 million blocks of page text, because filling a form means reading the page again on every turn of the loop. A long form means more re-reading, and at $3.36 the product cannot exist.

The web is hostile even to honest automation

Application forms sit behind Cloudflare, and a browser with no window is spotted instantly. What worked is a real Chromium, with a window, on an invisible screen inside a server, graphics intact. The less you fake, the less you are caught. Every clever disguise we tried was itself a fingerprint.

The limits we do not relax

• A daily cap, always. That run was capped at 5 a day. Mass applying is spam, and the hiring side is arming itself against it.
• It never invents a fact. Answers come from your profile and your Answer Library. When nothing there supports one, the truthful default goes in, never a work authorization or a qualification you do not have. It is saved for you to correct, and the application is not held up.
• Never your LinkedIn or Indeed account. We read the boards, but the application goes on the employer's own form. Both platforms suspend accounts for automation, and a suspended profile does not come back.

Those four days became the auto-apply we run today: you start with 3 free applications, one a day, with the same evidence. Buy credits and up to ten go out a day, and you pay only for what goes out. Prices are on Pricing and the rest is on the FAQ.

I also wrote about what remote jobs open to Latin America pay and what the Greenhouse form asks you. To see it on your own search, create an account and paste one job link.